C12 TWELVE

This Day's Black Fate

DEREK

This day's black fate on more days doth depend;

This but begins the woe, others must end.

— William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

THE MOON HUNG low in the sky, full and bright. We had no more compulsion to shift on a full moon than any other night of the month, but it did bring out our more animal nature.

I'd tried to sleep, to read, to work out